Why was the 1960s a time of great change?
What will be an ideal response?
The 1960s was a decade of turmoil in the criminal justice world. There are several events that changed not only criminal justice but America, as a society. There were large-scale race riots in major American cities. This decade also saw the assassinations of President John Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy, and the great civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. The civil rights movement was a major part of the 1960s and many of the rights that African Americans and other minority groups currently enjoy today were gained during the 1960s. The police came under tremendous public scrutiny and the U.S. Supreme Court expanded interpretations of the Bill of Rights in such court decisions such as and Mapp v. Ohio (1961) and Miranda v. Arizona (1966). These cases decided that police are accountable when they search an individual and that individuals being questioned by the police must be informed of their constitutional rights to refuse to answer police questions.
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